The above explanation sounds like VCB, I thought with NBU 7.6 the processes are as follows:
(direct write from the datastore to the storage unit are you saying that the during the snapshot phase the datastore is mapped to the backup host please clarify? )
Phase 1
The NetBackup master server initiates the backup.
Phase 2
The NetBackup client on the VMware backup host initiates a VMware
snapshot on the virtual machine.
Phase 3
Windows: VSS synchronizes the file system on the virtual machine.
Linux: The SYMCquiesce utility can quiesce the file system on supported
Linux operating systems.
Phase 4
The VMware server creates a snapshot on the virtual disk datastore.
Phase 5
The NetBackup client reads the snapshot from the datastores and writes
the data to the NetBackup storage unit.